The latest Reserve Bank managed fund statistics reinforce two important features of our investment markets.

The NZX will run out of steam unless companies, particularly the larger ones, can take advantage of the stronger economy, writes Brian Gaynor.

Investors are keeping a close eye on China because its growth rate is slowing and there are clear signs it has had a credit and property bubble, writes Brian Gaynor.

The movie The Wolf of Wall Street is having an impact on market regulation, particularly in the United States.

One of the biggest issues facing New Zealand investors is the inability of the country's business leaders to create long-term growth companies, writes Brian Gaynor.

The dairy industry and Fonterra have a long, long way to go before they reach their full potential, writes Brian Gaynor. The dairy sector should be more focused on added-value products.

This column is about two companies at opposite ends of the NZX. The first is Fletcher Building. The other is Renaissance Corporation.

Why does NZ Post continue to flounder while Germany's Deutsche Post has significantly outperformed the Frankfurt sharemarket in recent years and the UK's Royal Mail has just had a successful IPO?

It has been a great year for sharemarket investors, with the NZX50 Gross Index up 19.4 per cent since the end of 2012.

We hear a great deal about Obamacare and the debate over health insurance in the US, yet there is little media comment on NZ's health insurance issues, says Brian Gaynor.

The difference between passive, relative and absolute funds...

Two events this week clearly illustrate that serious questions need to be asked about the Crown's transparency and decision-making processes.

Meridian Energy's IPO is all about political risk.

The attempted takeover of Abano Healthcare by Archer Capital, a Sydney-based private equity firm, could be a turning point for the NZX.

September 7, 2018: The sharemarket soared to another record high this week as investors continued to react positively to the phenomenal June 2018 year profit announcements.

Our failure to establish widely accepted accounting standards creates major problems as far as the effective allocation of the country's capital is concerned.

Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English have revealed a new strategy for the Meridian Energy share offering.

With the annual meeting season gaining momentum Brian Gaynor looks at some of the key issues raised by shareholders over the next few months.

A few comments need to be made about Fonterra's contamination scare before revealing how a number of shareholders have hit the jackpot at King Country Energy.

Xero, which held its annual meeting at Te Papa on Thursday, is head and shoulders above most New Zealand companies for meeting organisation and clarity of message.

The KiwiSaver active versus passive debate has been reignited following recent articles by Diana Clement in the Business Herald, Paul McBeth in the Listener and Rob Stock, the money editor of the Sunday Star-Times, in an Auckland suburban newspaper.

International trends clearly indicate that Auckland will experience strong growth even if we don't develop the facilities to cope with this growth.

The court order requiring Pike River to pay $3.41 million to the families of its mine explosion victims raises many legal and moral questions.